City of big shoulders : a history of Chicago / Robert G. Spinney.

By:

Spinney, Robert G. (Robert Guy) [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020.Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 306 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781501748349
9781501748356

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F548 .C589 2020

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

Chigagou Becomes Chicago, 1750-1835 -- Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835-1850 -- Chicago Conquers the Midwest, 1850-1890 -- Life in a City on the Make, 1850-1900 -- The Fire, the Bomb, and the Fair, 1871-1893 -- The New Immigration, 1880-1920 -- Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890-1915 -- World War I and the Roaring Twenties, 1915-1929 -- The Great Depression, World War II, and Suburban Growth, 1929-1955 -- Richard J. Daley and The City That Works, 1955-1976 -- The Transitions of the Post-Daley Years, 1976-1997 -- Glamorous and Grim : Chicago in the Twenty-First-Century.

Subject: "This compact yet comprehensive account of Chicago's history links key events in the city's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Robert Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city-not only the tycoons and the politicians but also the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world who have kept the city working"--

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	F548.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1110122490

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Early World of Chigagou, 1600-1750 -- Chigagou Becomes Chicago, 1750-1835 -- Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835-1850 -- Chicago Conquers the Midwest, 1850-1890 -- Life in a City on the Make, 1850-1900 -- The Fire, the Bomb, and the Fair, 1871-1893 -- The New Immigration, 1880-1920 -- Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890-1915 -- World War I and the Roaring Twenties, 1915-1929 -- The Great Depression, World War II, and Suburban Growth, 1929-1955 -- Richard J. Daley and The City That Works, 1955-1976 -- The Transitions of the Post-Daley Years, 1976-1997 -- Glamorous and Grim : Chicago in the Twenty-First-Century.

"This compact yet comprehensive account of Chicago's history links key events in the city's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Robert Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city-not only the tycoons and the politicians but also the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world who have kept the city working"--

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.